Cheaper beef — for the donor.
Brazil's biggest meatpacker wrote the check, took the Oval Office meeting, and got the tariff cut. The American rancher got the foreclosure sign.
Source article: JBS shareholder meets Trump one day before beef import plan.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- agriculture
- Primary entities
- JBS, Joesley Batista, Donald Trump, National Cattlemen's Beef Association
- Themes
- trade policy, agricultural lobbying, meatpacking industry, executive branch
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness, Truthfulness